Your Brain Needs a Hug: Life, Love, Mental Health, and Sandwiches

by Rae Earl

You HAVE to remember you are human—magnificent but flawed. Your life, like all human lives, will be marked by your strength and your frailty, by your good times and your bad times. If sometimes you find it hard to cope, that’s normal. Give yourself a break. Really.

I felt like I was ALWAYS falling and failing. The reason I’ve told you all this is that I want to tell you one very important thing. It’s ended up OK. I’m OK. I had to find ways to cope and ways to get better.

And YOU matter. You matter to your friends, to your family, and to us all. You probably have no idea what you are capable of.

Put yourself first. YOU deserve it.

WHATEVER, SIR BASTARD OF ANXIETY. WHATEVER. SHUT UP.

Saying “I am doing the best I can and I am doing well. I am OK and these feelings will pass” as a substitute can serve to help anxiety pass more quickly. Small steps add up to HUGE things.